Extracting and processing critical minerals and rare earth elements create significant social, environmental, and human costs that need to be addressed to facilitate the energy transition sustainably. This report, the second of a series of four on this topic, examines the labor abuses, ecological degradation, and community harms linked to critical mineral mining.
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